Follow today’s news liveNSW police cite crowd size and hazards including ‘planter boxes’ in push to ban pro-Palestine ralliesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastChildren’s commissioner to address National Press Club today on youth justiceThe children’s commissioner, Anne Hollonds, is due to address the National Press Club today on a new report calling for an overhaul of Australia’s approach to child justice.That kind of slogan really is trying to show that ‘we’re really tough up here, we’re going to be tough on crime’. And what our report shows is that that approach, that traditional approach in this country, hasn’t worked and and that basically it’s evident that we’ve misunderstood the nature of the problem we’re trying to solve. We know that toughening up the justice system doesn’t actually prevent crime by children.The idea that the states and territories could fix this on their own has been misguided, we need to work together on it. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-10-02 07:35:56
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